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General Guidelines for Clinical Evaluation of Ayurvedic Interventions GUIDELINES SERIES-III GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR CLINICAL EVALUATION OF AYURVEDIC INTERVENTIONS CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN AYURVEDIC SCIENCES Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India New Delhi Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR CLINICAL EVALUATION OF AYURVEDIC INTERVENTIONS Volume - III CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN AYURVEDIC SCIENCES Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India New Delhi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll © Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, New Delhi - 110058 First Edition - 2018 Publisher: Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, New Delhi, J. L. N. B. C. A. H. Anusandhan Bhavan, 61-65, Institutional Area, Opp. D-Block, Janakpuri, New Delhi - 110 058, E-mail: [email protected], Website : www.ccras.nic.in Disclaimer: All possible efforts have been made to ensure the correctness of the contents. However Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Ministry of AYUSH, shall not be accountable for any inadvertent error in the content. Corrective measures shall be taken up once such errors are brought to notice. ISBN : 978-93-83864-22-5 Other Related Guidelines: Volume-I: General Guidelines for Drug Development of Ayurvedic Formulations Volume - II: General Guidelines for Safety/Toxicity Evaluation of Ayurvedic Formulations Printed a t: JK Offset Graphics Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi-110020 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll PROLOGUE Research and Development in the field of AYUSH system in different areas such as drug development including quality assurance, pre-clinical safety evaluation and Clinical Research are being conducted at different levels such as Research Council under AYUSH, Academic institutions (both AYUSH and non AYUSH institutes such as Medical Colleges, Universities etc.), other Research organizations such as ICMR, CSIR etc. Further, research support is also being extended through grant under Extra Mural Research (EMR) vide Ministry of AYUSH, DST, DBT, ICMR etc. in the area of traditional medicine. Lot of research is being conducted at different levels as above in the field of AYUSH adopting different guidelines, methods and protocols and ending up research outcomes with low or poor translational value. Only few of them have led to clinical trial and marketing level. This may be attributed to lack of awareness regarding AYUSH strategies for R&D and provisions of Drug & Cosmetic Act related to AYUSH. In spite of availability of several guidelines such as GCP guidelines for ASU drugs, ICMR Guidelines for Bio medical Research for Human Participants, GCP Guidelines published by CDSCO Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, WHO guidelines for traditional medical research and GCP guidelines for ASU drugs published by Ministry of AYUSH, there is no single comprehensive directive to conduct research in AYUSH sector is available. This might be one among the major reasons that has led to Research and Development in AYUSH sector with diverse approaches with low translational value. In view of this, it becomes imperative to develop directives on research practices for various components of AYUSH research sectors for uniform adoption across all stake holders such as research councils, academic institutes, funding agencies engaged in AYUSH research. Considering this, efforts have been made by CCRAS and developed three comprehensive and concise Guidelines focusing on drug development (Standardization and quality assurance), safety and toxicity and clinical evaluation for ready reference of stakeholders. These Guidelines encompassed with research practices may be suitably adopted and followed by investigators in the field of Ayurveda system such as Research organizations, academic institutions and Investigators seeking grant from schemes of different agencies funding for research on AYUSH system, would certainly help the investigators while designing and formulating the proposals and also planning academic industrial research in the field of AYUSH systems. The users may refer other two documents for having an overall idea concerning drug development and R & D in this field. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll GLOSSARY S.No. Terms with definitions 1. Accountability The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner. 2. Act Wherever relevant, the Act means Drugs & Cosmetics Act 1940 (23 of 1940) and the Rulesmade thereunder. 3. Adverse Drug All noxious and unintended responses to a medicinal product related reactions to any dose used in human for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy (ADR) of disease, or for the modifications of physiological function. ADRs are classified into six types: dose-related (augmented), non-dose- related (Bizarre), dose-related and time-related (Chronic), time- related (delayed) withdrawal (end of use) and failure of therapy (failure). 4. Adverse event Any untoward medical occurrence in a participant or clinical investigation participate administered an investigational product and which does not necessarily have a casual relationship with this treatment. The adverse event can therefore be any unfavorable or unintended sign or experience associated with the use of the investigational product, whether or not related to the product. 5. Assent To agree or approve after thoughtful consideration of an idea or suggestion. In these guidelines it means agreement or approval mostly in children > 8 years of age, which has to be corroborated with informed consent of legally authorized representative (LAR). 6. Assessment An official record of the review decision along with comments and form dated signature of the reviewer. 7. Audit A systematic and independent examination of trial activities and documents to determine whether the review and approval activities were conducted and data were recorded and accurately reported according to the study protocol, SOPs, GCP, Declaration of Helsinki and applicable guidelines and regulatory requirements. 8. Authority Authority means the Biomedical and Health Research Authority established under an Act. 9. Autonomy It is the ability and capacity of a rational individual to make an independently informed decision to volunteer as a research participant. 10. Ayurvedic drug Includes all medicines intended for internal or external use for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease or disorder in human beings or animals, and manufactured exclusively in accordance with the formulae described in the authoritative texts of ayurvedic system of medicine and Ayurvedic pharmacopeia of India specified in the first schedule of the Drugs & cosmetics Act 1940, Rules, 1945. These are also called as classical drugs which are manufactured and named in accordance with the formulations described in the authoritative texts. 11. Ayurveda Includes any existing/ new intervention with drug, therapeutic intervention regimens (Panchakarma and lifestyle advocacy, etc.), or parasurgical (Agnikarma, leech application, Ksharasutra, etc.) or surgical procedure or device in Ayurveda. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 12. Behavioral Refers to studies of the behaviour of individuals, or groups, or Research organizations or societies. 13. Biomedical and Includes basic, applied and operational research designed primarily to Health increase the scientific knowledge about diseases and conditions Research (physical or socio-behavioral), their detection, cause and strategies for health promotion or amelioration of disease and rehabilitation and includes clinical research. 14. Blinding / A method of “control experimentation” in which one or more parties Masking involved are not informed of the treatment being given. Single blind refers to the study subject(s) being unaware, while Double blind refers to the study subject(s) and/or investigators), monitor, data analyst(s) are being unaware of the treatment assigned. 15. Blinded studies A blind or blinded study is an experiment in which information about the test is masked (kept) from the participant, to reduce or eliminate bias, until after a trial outcome is known. Double blinded means even the investigator does not know which is the test intervention. 16. Case control A study that compares participants who have a disease or outcome of studies interest (cases) with participants
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